User guide
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- About this User Guide
- Introducing the 3ware® SATA RAID Controller
- Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller
- First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM
- Driver Installation
- Driver Installation Under Windows
- Driver Installation Under Linux
- Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers
- Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core 5
- Materials required
- Creating a Red Hat Linux Driver Diskette
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module while Installing Red Hat Linux on a New Unit
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module on a Red Hat or Fedora Core Linux System that Boots From a Different Device
- About Variables In the Kernel Driver Module Installation Instructions
- Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux
- Compiling a 3ware Driver for Linux
- Driver Installation Under FreeBSD
- 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) Introduction
- 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction
- Configuring Your Controller
- Configuring Units
- Configuring a New Unit
- Creating a Hot Spare
- Naming a Unit
- Setting Unit Policies
- Changing An Existing Configuration by Migrating
- Deleting a Unit
- Removing a Unit
- Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another
- Adding a Drive
- Removing a Drive
- Rescanning the Controller
- Maintaining Units
- Checking Unit and Drive Status through 3DM
- About Degraded Units
- About Inoperable Units
- Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
- Background Tasks
- Scheduling Background Tasks
- Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
- Maintaining Your Controller
- Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver
- Updating the Firmware and Driver
- Downloading the Driver and Firmware
- Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2
- Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows
- Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows XP
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE
- Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD
- Updating the Firmware Under Linux and FreeBSD
- Viewing Battery Information
- Testing Battery Capacity
- 3DM 2 Reference
- Troubleshooting
- Appendices
- Index
Chapter 8. Configuring Units
112 3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller User Guide
To enable or disable queuing for a unit through 3DM
1 Choose
Management > Controller Settings from the menu bar in 3DM.
2In the
Unit Policies section of the Controller Settings page, enable
queuing by checking the box under “Queuing” for the designated unit;
disable it by unchecking the box.
The page refreshes, and a message at the top confirms the change that you
have made.
To enable or disable queuing for a unit through 3BM
1 At the main 3BM screen, select the unit by highlighting it and pressing
Enter
.
An asterisk appears in the left-most column to indicate that it is selected.
2Tab to the Maintain Unit button and press Enter.
3 On the pop-up menu, select
Configure and press Enter.
4In the
Configure Disk Array screen, Tab to the field Drive Queuing
Mode
.
5 Press
Enter
to display the choices, use the
arrow keys
to select the setting
you want (Enabled or Disabled), and press
Enter
again to choose it.
6 Tab to the OK button and press Enter to select it.
You return to the main 3BM screen.
7 When you are finished making changes, press
F8 to save them and exit
3BM.
Setting the StorSave Profile for a Unit
You can set the desired level of data protection versus performance for a unit
by selecting the StorSave Profile. Three profiles are provided: Protection
(maximum data protection), Performance (maximum performance, less data
protection), and Balanced (a middle ground).The default is Protection.
About StorSave Profile Levels
The three profiles automatically adjust several different factors that affect
protection and performance on a per unit basis. These are summarized in the
table below and further explained after the table.